June

Good Day! Please be informed that our scheduled General Assembly is on June 28, 2016, Tuesday at 8:00 a.m. and breakfast will be served at 7:00 a.m. Our Guest Speaker will be Dr. Danilo Bv. Tuazon, Neuro-psychologist, Psychopharmacologist,Brain-based Learning Specialist, and Nutritional Neuroscientist and will talk on the topic “Brain Based Learning”. Please confirm your

Tesda on job mismatch: Pinoys still prefer ‘saleable’ courses Achieving balance in the distribution of manpower or job mismatch remains elusive for the government as Filipino students still tend to favor “saleable” college courses that would land them white-collar jobs. Irene M. Isaac, Tesda’s Deputy Director General for Policies and Planning, conceded manpower planning has

English: No longer a language, but a commodity Filipino workers continue to enjoy an edge over other nationalities in the Asean region in fluency and mastery of English, despite the conflicting and divergent views insofar as the conduct of English language teaching and learning in the Philippines is concerned. Edizon A. Fermin, principal of Miriam

Learning science: Think, analyze, don’t memorize A chemist-educator urged science teachers to allow their students to think and analyze, instead of requiring them to memorize facts and procedures that does not lead to mastery of scientific concepts and ideas. “One of the issues that needs to be addressed under the K-12 program is the common

FUSE teaches teachers to become trainers Eighty-nine teachers from public elementary schools in Ilocos Sur and Vigan City recently underwent a five-day training seminar at the FUSE Learning Center for Teachers, in Manila, which aims to enrich the participants’ teaching skills in English, Mathematics and Science. The teachers, who came from at least 50 elementary

FUSE sees 1st gold for Phl in math Olympiad The Philippines may bag its first gold medal and surpass the country’s impressive showing in the math Olympiad as the nucleus of the team that will be sent to Thailand is composed of experienced and tested competitors. The Foundation for Upgrading the Standard of Education (FUSE)

Learning science with fun: FUSE brings poor students to interactive center Over 4,000 students from public high schools in depressed communities in Metro Manila had visited the Philippine Science Centrum (PSC) to undergo “hands-on minds-on” activities at the facility, the first interactive science center-museum in the country. The participants were recipients of the “Science Beyond